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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 21:29:25 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: Those ruddy punctuation fixes
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Dave Jones wrote:
> Spelling fixes aren't going to get us to 2.6.0 any faster.

One problem with spelling fixes is that there's never a good
moment, nor a good procedure to do them.

> There are _dozens_ of known problems, and I'll take patches
> fixing real problems over spelling fixes any day.

I guess it would be nice if Linus would give some advance warning
when he's going to accept speelnig fixes. That way, people with
"real work" could schedule a few weeks at the beach, while the
spelling police does its grisly job.

Of course, we all know that this will never happen ;-)

- Werner

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